My latest paper, titled “Ordering EU internal security: Information sharing, code
tables, and epistemic stabilisation“, has now been published in European Security.
In the article, I show how EU internal security cooperation fundamentally rests on what I call “epistemic stabilisation,” i.e. the continuous engagement with and adjustment of the code tables that make information exchange throughout Europe possible. The analysis explicates how officers, technicians, and database specialists align heterogeneous national knowledge systems, update categories in response to changing realities, and thereby shape what becomes recordable and governable through the SIS. This work, as I argue, should be understood as politically consequential because it continually reconstitutes the epistemic foundations of European internal security.
The article is available as full open access version.
Matthias Leese 